LAPSIS (2020)
“science fiction satire about the gig economy, Big Tech, and the battle against stifling capitalism”
Read MoreSHIVA BABY (2020)
“It’s a juicy, tense and involving dramatic bagel, slathered with rye wit, salacious brine, and caustic uncertainty.”
Read MoreRIDERS OF JUSTICE (2021)
“The ultimate cinematic brooder stoics over every frame”
Read MoreGREENLAND (2020)
“Greeny is a reverse hourglass film; the beginning and ending are generally average and somewhat dumb, but the middle is robust, gritty, and stirring.”
Read MoreTHOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD (2021)
Sheridan is good at this “rural action thriller” genre
Read MoreTHE UNITED STATES vs. BILLIE HOLIDAY (2020)
“Day does a fantastic job, bringing the drama and the vocal chops, but the film lacks otherwise.”
Read MoreOSCAR 2021 NOMINEE ROUND-UP
“Sometimes you never get around to posting about a film, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t see them or that I don’t have thoughts. Here are a few”
Read MoreTHE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN/QUO VADIS, AIDA? (2020)
“A couple of politically charged and vitally felt dramas about refugees, but I would definitely speak to my embracing of Man over Quo”
Read MoreTHE FATHER (2020)
“In the abstract, it chills, but in the context of those loved & cherished, it becomes agony”
Read MorePINOCCHIO (2020)
“makeup craftsmanship on display is otherworldly; literally and figuratively”
Read MoreTHE ONE AND ONLY IVAN (2020)
“inert and dead-eyed perfunctory CGI family parable”
Read MoreCHERRY (2021)
“Partially it’s the casting and the over abundance, but it just feels like kids putting on a show”
Read MoreCALM WITH HORSES (THE SHADOW OF VIOLENCE) (2020)
“Its touching and poignant, with a sheer and true aesthetic.”
Read MoreSENTINELLE (2021)
“story with dedicated heart and some appreciated visual aplomb”
Read MoreTWO OF US (2021)
“an elegant and somber triumph”
Read MoreJUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (2020)
“Kaluuya is pure fire on screen; like a Neolithic blaze enrapturing and warming the shivering proto humans gathered around it”
Read MoreSTARDUST (2020)
“Let me worship at my deity’s feet instead of listlessly withering into his flawed and restrained humanity”
Read MoreNEWS OF THE WORLD (2020)
“The “news” it brings is all very subdued and lame.”
Read MoreNOMADLAND (2020)
“The crush of modern society and the new gig economy juxtaposed with the idyllic & frett freedom of the wayfarer”
Read MoreSAINT MAUD (2021)
“trapped terror of dark catholic femininity”
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